Even more often, admirers from various backgrounds dwelled on what Nixon himself cared most about: his foreign-policy work, most notably détente with the Soviet Union and his “opening” to China.

Half a century later, President Donald Trump seems to be eyeing a similar diplomatic maneuver, but in reverse: drawing Russia ...

Richard Nixon is remembered as the president who carried out a pivotal shift in the US’ postwar foreign policy. His foreign policy included the Nixon Doctrine, a thaw with China, and a détente ...

No foreign policy adviser to a U.S. president before or since had the power Kissinger had. He spoke to Nixon as much as a dozen times a day. Kissinger saw Nixon as an insecure man, and tapes of ...

Writing in The New York Times, Ross Douthat noted Trump’s debt to Nixon’s foreign policy realism. Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis thinks we are heading for a new version of the ...

He soon took on the additional role of foreign-policy adviser to New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, who had set his sights on the White House. When Rockefeller fell short and Nixon re-emerged as ...